found this on bb-blog and it’s beyond lovely and it is knitted animation which must have taken for-flipping-ever to create and as if that wasn’t enough to make it the most whimsical animation of all time, it is also FRENCH.  Les YAY.

And if I were shipwrecked on a deserted island and had to choose only 1 music video it would be, well, r. kelly’s trapped in the closet, but… but then after that it would be.. ok it would be lionel richie’s hello, then maybe hard day’s night and thriller but after those, this one would definitely be in my top 10:

Dear Reese Witherspoon,

Your days in my good favor* are numbered:  “Witherspoon Hates Bouncy Castles” – IMDB.com

I wonder if, after “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde” AND “Four Christmases“, your career will be as resilient as the bouncy-castles you so publicly despise.

Ever,
Meredith

* Election was rad.

on december 17th, 2006, I made gingerbread fetuses for a holiday party. and I thought, I should make a fetus-shaped cookie cutter because 1. it’s pure hilarity and 2. well, it would be easier than cutting them by hand.

and I *knew*, I just KNEW that it was a good idea.  but I did nothing.  NOTHING.  and then today, almost 2 years later, helen-dearling forwarded me the following:

*weeping*

There are 2 lessons to learn from this:

1. if you have an idea and there is even the smallest inkling in your mind that it might be marketable*, PATENT/COPYRIGHT/TRADEMARK/REGISTER IT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE because.
2. people will buy ANYTHING.

* first thing tomorrow I will be patenting my idea for tissues that conveniently wrap around your arms (”Sneeves”).